Scrappin' away the weekend

So the girls (Kerri, Shauna, Heidi) and I finally got together to spend some quality time scrapping our fave pics. Well I don't know how much scrapping got done but we had a great time chatting, eating and just hanging out.

We all had a great time looking at the pics that we had and talking about the stories behind them and of course I had so many pics of the girls to scrap so that's where I started.

When I looked at the pic that Storm took of my first look of the girls after their birth, it just brings back such memories. Kendall was the first baby to be delivered and in that moment between knowing she was out of me and her first cry I swear it was forever. I just waited and waited for what seemd to be an eternity and then she cried and I had tears in my eyes. In that moment I knew I was a mum.

Sydney took longer to cry and I just kept saying "breathe sweetheart, breathe" until she did. When the nurse showed me the girls I didn't know who was who as I was suffering by that time. My throat was so dry and the anesthetic had made my nose all blocked so I was having trouble breathing but I still kissed one of them (tummy juices and all!)- not sure who and told the nurse to get them to the NICU pronto. The next time I saw them after that was in their humicribs later that night using a wheelchair as a walking assistant as I couldn't straighten up after the c-section.


I loved the metal squares with baby imprints on them and bought them several years ago knowing that one day they'd be on my kid's pages.


Here's one titled "Grandma's Girls" with my mum and the girls. These colours I'm not really comfortable working with as I'm more of a neutrals kind of chick so it was a step out of my comfort zone. Every time I see it I'm liking it more but it will still take some time for me to get used to it.


I love the little vellum saying at the bottom of the page.


So here is another step out of my comfort zone with a pink page. I know that I have girls so it's going to be pink all the way eventually so I thought I'd get a head start. So it's Kendall in the bath.


Love the rubber duckie brads.


And last but not least - my pastel page. Heidi and I have both moaned that pastels are just not our thing but I am embracing it head on and dragging out my pastel brads...


It's a shame but you can't really tell that the writing is done in pink glitter. I really am glad that I have girls instead of boys. It's going to bring out my inner princess!

The colours of Mt Charleston

So autumn/fall has now come to the valley - well Mt Charleston at least! A quick 35 minute drive from home and we find ourselves at elevations rivalling Mt Kosiosko (I know spelling...). We've never really been up there at this time of year (we really only go during winter time for the snow or summer to escape the heat and eat outside!) so we were surprized with the colours there. It may be a dry olive green colour mixed in with ochre and sandy colours too down here in the valley but up there there were yellows, oranges and reds. I managed to snap off a few shots but missed the light on some trees that were just amazingly yellow when we drove up. Very cool.




I found this view very interesting. It looked like a yellow flower lava stream coming down the mountain!


So we had lunch at the lodge (as usual!). Kendall slept while I fed Syd next to the fire. We passed Syd around while we all ate and took pics as we finished our meals. I had the coffee as usual for a drink. Man I love the coffees up there.



Out the front of the lodge are some small market stalls with native american (I know so p.c.) markets. Mavis looked at some things while I snapped a quick one of Stormy and then a couple of the two of them together.



Kendall needed her lunch on the way back down the mountain. We've discovered that the minivan is not low enough to be really comfortable to perch a baby on your knees to feed. Storm and I swapped a couple of times before Kendall was done.

While we were stopped the were some ratty (but nice in a desert type of way) flowers on the side of the road. I took some pics of them and also tried to get arty with the lens to take pics of a tree or two. I said I tried..!!!!

My little thumb sucker

So both of the girls have taken to sucking on their thumbs/fingers. Kendall more so than Sydney.

Kendall really goes to town on her thumb while Syd prefers her index finger.

It's not a thing that I would like to encourage (I can always throw a pacifier away and deal with the tantrums than try to break a thumb sucking habit!) but it's just so darn cute!

Sleeping - Kulhan style

It has been commented by a family member that all he ever sees is pics of the girls sleeping. I would like to point out to the childless family member that sleep is at a premium with one baby let alone two. Here are some pics of how we've all been sleeping....Storm with Sydney.

Not my finest hour (I left out the pic with the double chin business). Me with Sydney as usual.

Both Sydney and Kendall have taken to burying their faces while they sleep in our arms. This is Syd's attempt to avoid the spotlight.

And again. Lunch at Gordon Biersch. Knew the boob job would come in handy for something.

Kendall with Mavis. She is such a snorer now. She takes after us all.

And last but not least here is one of the cutest sights that I have seen in a while. I was waiting up to feed the babies for their last feed of the night. Storm had gone to sleep and the dogs had followed. So I went in to go do something and I spied Oscar sleeping (where I normally would be) next to Storm. He never moved in the time that it took me to get the camera and take a couple of pics. He was so comfortable...Storm never knew.

Visitin' time at the Pumpkin Patch

So last weekend (I know I've taken my sweet time writing about it!) we, the Kulhan family and Mavis went to a pumpkin patch thingey in North Las Vegas with the Galvins and BJ and Liana.

I had these great intentions of taking some family fall pics with the bales of hay and pumpkins all around but it was not to be.

The girls fell asleep on the way there which was great to a point but once there I was not going to wake them for all the tea in China, especially Syd. Kendall did end up waking up but while she wasn't in a bad mood she wasn't in the best of moods either so I just posed with her for a pic or two in front of a pumpkin.

I had wanted to put one of mum's quilts down and take some family pics but we'll just have to settle with the girls in their stroller and us posing in front of the haybale maze.


You can just see Kendall's (in green) face. Syd (in pink) stayed asleep for the entire visit at the pumpkin patch and then for a late brekky at Mimi's cafe.

New to this

So finally I have succumbed to a new technology. It seems simple enough so we'll see if I continue to regularly post news about our family in Vegas.

So sleep is still a scarce commodity at the moment. We have help in the form of Mavis (mother-in-law) thankfully but between the two girls it's pretty much all hands on deck all the time. Especially with Sydney fighting sleep all day long.

So, the key is finding time to keep everyone up-to-date but it will be much easier with one central blog rather than separate emails (sorry everyone conserving and consolidating time is really important for me! I swear I'm not lazy - just time deprived!)